Deon Joseph Dyer nickname "Gunsmoke" (born October 2, 1977 in
Chesapeake, Virginia
Chesapeake is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 249,422, it is the second-most populous independent city in Virginia, tenth-largest in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 90th ...
) is a former
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Sports
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** Full-back (association football), in association football (soccer), a defender playing in a wide position
** Fullback (gridiron football), in Americ ...
in the
National Football League. He was originally drafted by the
Miami Dolphins in the fourth round of the
2000 NFL Draft
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.
He played
college football
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Unlike most ...
at the
North Carolina.
Deon began working as a high school football coach at
Pine Crest School, yet he left to pursue other options in 2014.
He now works at Deep Creek High School.
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1977 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Chesapeake, Virginia
American football fullbacks
North Carolina Tar Heels football players
Miami Dolphins players
Houston Texans players
Columbus Destroyers players
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